Marriage and Divorce

At first glance it’s easy to say, “There really isn’t resentment in my marriage.” Actually, it’s an active ingredient in most relationships. We may label it differently, but it is there.  Take a look at some specific examples and some…
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A cheating heart is a popular topic in country songs. Other than that, it has very little value in today’s society. Infidelity is a big reason for many people to end relationships and go their separate ways. This can be…
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Having a night out with your spouse is easy in the early days of marriage, when it’s just the two of you. Unless you’re both total layabouts, or obsessive workaholics, you can eke out a chunk of time every week…
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Vacations have many benefits and the most important may be the relief from stress. This is especially true for the married couple who have been under a lot of pressure. The daily grind of jobs, raising children, paying bills and…
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When I saw this question I started thinking about all the things I could write about. However I realized over the years my opinion on this matter have changed. I used to get so mad when my husband would leave…
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Resentment can destroy a marriage very easily. You make a decision, weather it is the marriage itself, or to have children, a move, or a job change. If the grass isn’t greener after your decision you are bound to resent…
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The title, of course, comes from the Hank Williams classic, “Your Cheatin’ Heart”, and it warns of consequences in store for a fickle lover for throwing away a true relationship to wander elsewhere to find another love: “When tears come…
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Well nothing is made to last forever! However, everyone puts a lot of pressure on getting married and making it last forever. The thing is, it is up to the individuals concerned and how they married in the first place….
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Many look at dating as getting to know a person to see if they are compatible for marriage. Spending time together in-person is the old-fashioned and most effective way to find out if two people are compatible. They are able…
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Discouraging your partner’s annoying habits should be done with great tact, and an idea of how to do it without offending them. Habits that annoy you are not intentional, they are simply behaviors that have developed over a long period…
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What do I do and why as a Marriage Counseling Professional is a very complicated end result of various theoretical contributions: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) claimed that the roots of the psychological problems are innate motives (sex and aggression); the conscious…
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Marriage is a funny, sometime peculiar thing, especially when you look at it from a distance. You take a man and a woman and put them not just in the same house, but in the same bed, night after night,…
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The doctor told your husband that he has to lose weight, lower his cholesterol, and get more exercise. He agrees and makes a good initial effort, but he soon falls right back into old behavior patterns. You don’t like to…
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Many a marriage has been destroyed by resentment. Little annoyances, through to larger grievances left unattended can fester until they grow and eventually cause an irreparable rift. Most people can probably think of a couple they know who started out…
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Certain bad habits which were not apparent when a couple were not living together can become irritating once they start living together.  Everyone has his bad habits, therefore before you start to nag your spouse because once more he left…
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Marriage is not easy. It is not always happy. It is not always sad. Stand at the edge of the ocean and watch the waves come and go with a natural flow. If there is comfort in this motion, marriage…
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Every close relationship, at some point, will encounter something that instigates the necessity to forgive if the relationship is to continue. No one is perfect, thus we all make poor choices or errors in judgment at least occasionally. There is…
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I am a strong supporter on personal freedom of choice. Whether a couple lives together before marriage should be their choice, depending on what works for them in their vision of partnership, nobody else’s. I am living in a common-law…
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When my niece was getting married a few years back, those of us at her bachlorette party was asked to give her one piece of wedding advice. My advice to her was that she had to wake up every morning…
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In today’s world, with divorces seeming to become increasingly common, it seems that nobody really knows how to keep a marriage alive anymore.  While having a long lasting marriage was not unheard of in days past, it’s not as easy…
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A married man should know the same thing a married woman should also know and that is among others that marriage is not an easy thing. Men and women should know that we as different genders react to life differently….
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There are many couples in the world that love each other, but many do not love each other enough. Their love is not big enough to stand out amongst everything else in their lives. It’s there, but it gets pushed…
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Perfect wife? You want a perfect wife, you’re going to have to design her yourself. It’s a myth that such a creature exists, and you are living in a fantasy world if you think she’s going to try. It’s a…
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How does a couple achieve a successful marriage? Is there such a thing? Success is such a blurry word. Isn’t success the matter of one’s opinion? Is a successful marriage one that does not end in divorce, or one where…
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Having a successful marriage is a wonderful thing: you know you will always have someone there to stand by you in your troubled times and share in your happy times. However, it takes some work to make it last. One…
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Communication and integrity are the key ingredients to a successful courtship, which creates greater potential for a happy and successful marriage. One of the biggest mistakes many people making early in the dating process is behaving in a way that…
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Marriage is intended to be until death do us part, it is supposed to last forever. Marriage will not last until death do us part unless both partners put in the effort required for a healthy and happy marriage. The…
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Is he really marriage material? Writing this from a stand point of being married for many years, I do believe after many seasons of marriage, I’ve found many pointers that can lead to you finding the right person in your…
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When you married, the odds are good that you had expectations of a life of togetherness in every way with your husband or wife. You were going to share everything from your time to your bodies, and nothing could ever…
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Mutual respect is absolutely the biggest foundation-stone for a lasting marriage, or any relationship. The basic understanding of another person’s lifestyle and choices, and the manifestation of their beliefs and dreams, as well as optimally sharing in these aspects of…
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